Three retired sea captains living together in genteel squalor. They scheme to improve their fortunes by having one of them solicit a bride through an ad in a Boston newspaper. The loser of a coin toss must get married and take in the other two as boarders. But upon the arrival of the Nantucket woman selected from the applicants, the captains get cold feet.
Aside from the occasional magical shot or affecting actor moment, it's a film whose poverty betrays most every frame.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
15 Apr 2009
rotten:
Trying to sit through The Golden Boys is like trudging across the Cape Cod sand in galoshes during a nor'easter with a mule on your back.
– Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
16 Apr 2009
rotten:
The Golden Boys is an object lesson in how to squander a seasoned cast, a charming premise and a breathtaking location.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
17 Apr 2009
rotten:
This musty yarn would have worked better as a 1940s MGM programmer.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
17 Apr 2009
rotten:
It seems particularly perverse to take actors who helped develop the '60's thesping style of hang-loose, semi-improvisational immediacy and stick them in a creaky period piece glazed with arch gentility and ersatz quaintness.